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IBM eyes expanded water cooling for datacenters

Big Blue sees second lease on life for mainframe cooling technology

Business Objects product targets midmarket

Standard Edition consolidates Business Objects' separate BI modules into simplified package

Oracle extends reach of its enterprise search software

Major upgrade emphasizes new links to third-party data sources and ID management systems

Microsoft: Excel vulnerable to new attack

Latest flaw may also affect other Office software

Security experts: Super Bowl infection widespread

Increasing number of Web sites found to host malicious code first detected on Super Bowl sites

Vulnerability metrics matter

Wait on Vista upgrade, Apple says

Apple releases tool that solves compatibility issue between iTunes and Microsoft's new OS

Microsoft’s Zocher talks up Expression

Multimedia experience critical to Microsoft future

RSA: Security firms evolve to tackle new threats

Glimpse of industry adapting to rapid changes, new threats

DEMO 07 Pushes People Power in Tech

Startups, established firms share stage at Demo

AMD not feeling heat of Intel breakthrough

Company also has 45nm chips coming, but won't say when

Vista Business Edition Does Not a Business Laptop Make

Gore pushes IT vendors to help save climate

Ex-vice president urges the IT sector to take the lead in creating, developing, and implementing green technology

Users, analysts: No rush to adopt Exchange 2007

New hardware requirements, compatability problems, and new architecture push many companies into a 'wait and see' approach to upgrading

FTC to release ID theft data at RSA

Findings compiled via the Consumer Sentinel database meant to help track identity crime in terms of number of victims as well as dollars lost

Mindreef eyes automated Web service tests

SOAPscope platform to be expanded to allow for automation and new features such as load testing

Antigambling law doesn’t stop online traffic

Cybersecurity vendor notes that during the runup to the Super Bowl, Americans are still visitng gambling sites despite the new law

Hackers target hole in BrightStor

Exploit code hits Windows XP and Windows 2000 systems

CA to phase out sub-brands as part of integration

The software company, which has acquired several companies and brand names, seeks to unite all products under the CA brand to further integration

Symantec: Exploits circulating for CA BrightStor Hole

Mobile entertainment market to soar over next 5 years

Analysts see high-speed mobile phones pushing much higher revenues for gaming, mobile TV, and video services

Oracle seeks more SMB, industry, and compliance business

Company sees the fragmented SMB market as an untapped opportunity and looks to attract customers with industry-specific requirements

Viacom demands its videos removed from YouTube

After months of fruitless talks, the media conglomerate has demanded that all its copyrighted holdings be removed from the video-sharing site

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Dolphins’ Web sites hacked in advance of Super Bowl

Security experts advise avoiding miamidolphins.com, dolphinsstadium.com, and proplayerstadium.com due to malicious code on the sites

Dell investors file suit over accounting practices

Suit alleges Dell used illegal accounting methods to hide kickbacks from Intel and that Dell execs engaged in massive insider trading

French students to get open-source software on USB key

Authorities employ tactics for bridging digital divide while avoiding, if not fighting, software piracy

Sharp to double UK solar module production

Sharp responds to growing demand in Europe for solar energy systems

In Brief: Panasonic takes Blu-ray testing to Hollywood

Novell, Honeywell team on physical-IT security

Companies to tap government market for linked building, network access

German police again the target of cybercrime

Spam allegedly sent by German police office contains an attachment with malware

European chip sales grew slower than in rest of world

European sales of chips were up just 1.6 percent in 2006

Vista sends Quanta laptop sales to new high

Quanta shipped over 2 million notebooks in January due to strong orders ahead of Vista's launch

Fairchild, Himax purchase Taiwanese chip makers

Chip companies receive regulatory approval from the Taiwan government for their acquisitions

CA begins simplification of product names

CA will implement descriptive names for its current software families like Unicenter and BrightStor

ASE, NXP sign China chip joint venture pact

Joint venture in China is another sign of easing restrictions by Taiwan government

YouTube execs to talk copyrights in Japan

Japanese video content producers to discuss copyrighted material available on YouTube's site

Verizon rolls out faster 3G

Verizon begins deploying a faster mobile broadband service

Hiring for IT mediocrity and despair

Open XML translator for Word available

Plug-in for Office 2007 translates Open XML documents into ODF and vice versa

CA unhappy with its storage business

CA looks to turn around sluggish third-quarter sales growth in its storage management business

Get a handle on the JAX-WS API’s handler framework

Learn how to use the handler framework in your Web services projects

Google Maps for mobile does Windows

Laptop battery breakthrough … maybe

CA ‘pleased’ with mixed Q3 results

Troubled software company shows a slight rise in revenue and a slight fall in net profit

Wall Street Beat: Google drops, but confidence high

Analysts undaunted by Google's stock price decline, writing it off to unusually high expectations for the company

Almost 30 percent of Internet users tag online

New study shows tagging is increasingly being embraced as a way to sort and categorize online content

Vista hole opens door to ‘shout hacking’

Security honeymoon ends with warning on speech recognition

Oracle apps launch, short on glitz, long on reassurance

Announcement of new releases confirms company's commitment to enhance all software products

ID fraud down, says research firm

Lost or stolen credit cards continue to be the number one source of ID fraud